Susan M. Gordon

Susan M. Gordon was Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence from 5 September 2017 to 8 August 2018, succeeding Stephanie O'Sullivan.

Biography
Susan M. Gordon joined the CIA in 1980 and served in its Directorate of Science and Technology, and she served as director of the Office of Advanced Analytic Tools from 1996 to 2000. She went on to serve as Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from 2015 to 2017 and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence from 2017 to 2018. On 8 August 2019, not long after Donald Trump announced Dan Coats' resignation as Director of National Intelligence, Trump decided to fire Gordon as well, as she remained loyal to Coats and would not become a Trump loyalist.